Quote Originally Posted by geekgirl101 View Post
I was under the impression that level syncing allowed players from all levels to team up with lower level buddies who were constantly stuck seeking a party of players their own level, and that books were to help players to earn experience point bonuses, gain buffs, and a little extra gil to allow for solo play.

For a short while it seemed to work...people teaming together in zones like Valkurm, Qufim and Yuhtunga Jungle and partying together without the fear of outlevelling each other. That was, until people discovered that by teaming together in an alliance in dungeons and doing ground valor pages over and over fighting easy prey targets gave more experience points for less effort. This coupled together with lower levels being taken to Zehrun Mines by higher levels to leech from the ground valor manuals and Abyssea alliances with lower levels taking advantage of the domninion operations manuals means that once more zones such as Valkurm Dunes, Qufim, and the two jungles have become abandoned zones with players still stuck seeking for a party if they are wanting a legit party or the book burning alliance for their level is full.

My question to SE is was this intended? To have players take part in mindless zerging or leeching without needing to upgrade their gear or spells until they hit level 90 within a couple of days with no decent skills? There's another game that does this, it's called World of Warcraft, and I came to FFXI to escape from that.
in a way i hate this kind of exping, so i understan how ya feel about it, but i do it on my main characer my self, only coz i have all skillz capped, hell my alt is a better WHM than the gimps out there that have really really gimp skills, about 11 times now people sent /tells to me o says in party chat to stop gear swappng too much, i am sorry if you need to tell people that then gtfo the party and read up on making macro's and at the same time find out why people gear change so much,

this is something that just grinds my gears and i just wanna give a RL slap to everyone that tells me to stop gear swapping so much and i have more than 5 gearsets for every job i play.

i was soloing Chukwa the other day on PLD/RDM and no i dont have ochain or Aegis (LS mates thought i would fail) and this gimp group was asking why i changed gear soo much (i have like 17 geat set for PLD), i ignored them till i killed it solo face tanking the whole time, so i explained why, then they said that i should only need 1 gear set, come on seriously?

this is why this in a way should be put a stop to, imo Abyssea should have been be lvl 75+ GoV should be 80+ restictions. but its not going to happen soo i will have to live with it.